Fraudsters tried four times to use David Greenwood’s credit card four times in the past two years. He decided to give it away for free and give it in a package with fake card numbers. It took two hours for data from a Visa card to be used for a micro-transaction, just to check it’s validity. The purpose of the test was to observe how information travels on the internet and its underground sites. In an experiment in 2017, SANS Technology Institute member Johannes Ullrich found that bots connected every two minutes to the internet with its factory configuration.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/credit-card-data-exposed-online-is-tested-within-2-hours/